M S Narasimhan

Professor Narasimhan’s areas of interest include management accounting, corporate finance and capital markets. He holds a Master’s Degree in commerce (Madras) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in financial Management (IFMR). He has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Madras. He is also a member of Institute of cost and works Accountant of India. After serving in the industry for a brief period, he joined as a faculty member at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai. Dr. Narasimhan has taught in several executive development programmes and published several articles and research studies in national and international journals and financial newspapers. His research paper also won the best Research paper award at the annual convention of AIMS held at Pune. He has also completed a study on Corporate Disclosure Practices in India sponsored under the FIRE project. He was also a member of a consulting team, which studied cash management in LIC, Organisational Structure of a state-level development bank, Costing systems of a transformer manufacturing company, Restructuring of state level small scale industries water supply project. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of capital markets, corporate finance and management accounting.

Teaching

Professor Narasimhan teaches courses on Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance and Investments. He has also designed and taught in several executive development programmes.

Consulting

He was a member of the consulting teams which studied Cash Management in LIC, Organizational Structure of a State-level Development Bank, Costing Systems of a Transformer Manufacturing Company, Restructuring of State-level, Small-Scale Industries Development Corporation, Risk Management in the Treasury of a Large Bank and Financial and Portfolio Management of TTD, and Financial Accounting and Costing System for a water supply project.

Awards

Best Research Paper award at the annual convention of AIMS held at Pune.

Education

• PhD, University of Madras, India
• PGDFM, Institute of Financial Management and Research, India
• ACMA, Institute of Cost Accountants of India
• MCom, University of Madras, India
• BCom, University of Madras, India